Award opportunities

Albert Einstein World Award of Science (World Cultural Council)

Nominees should be eminent scientists whose achievements can serve as an inspiration for future generations. Deadline: 2022.

Killam Awards for Excellence in Mentoring (UBC)

To recognize outstanding mentorship of numerous graduate students. One award will be on the mid-career category, another for the senior category. Deadline: September 18, 2020

Robert H. Whittaker Awards (ESA)

The Whittaker Distinguished Ecologist award (2 given) recognize ecologists who are not U.S. citizens and who reside outside the U.S. Deadline: October 19, 2017

Innovation in Sustainability Science Award (ESA)

Innovation in Sustainability Science Award is given to the authors of a peer-review paper published in the past five years that exemplifies leading edge work on solution pathways to sustainability challenges. Deadline: October 19, 2017

Sustainability Science Award (ESA)

Sustainability Science Award is given to the authors of a scholarly work that makes the greatest contribution to the emerging science of ecosystem and regional sustainability through the integration of ecological and social sciences. Deadline: October 19, 2017

W. S. Cooper Award (ESA)

This award is for a single contribution in a scientific publication to honor an outstanding contributor to the fields of geobotany and/or physiographic ecology. Deadline: October 19, 2017

Mercer Award (ESA)

The Mercer Award is given for an outstanding ecological research paper published by a younger researcher (the lead author must be 40 years of age or younger at the time of publication). Deadline: October 19, 2017

Eugene P. Odum Award for Excellence in Ecology Education (ESA)

The Eugene P. Odum Award recognizes an ecologist for outstanding work in ecology education. Deadline: October 19, 2017

Eminent Ecologist Award (ESA)

The Eminent Ecologist Award is given to a senior ecologist in recognition of an outstanding body of ecological work or of sustained ecological contributions of extraordinary merit. Deadline: October 19, 2017

AAAS Fellowship

AAAS member whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications are scientifically or socially distinguished, and who has been a continuous member for the four-year period leading up to the year of nomination Deadline: April 20, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time.